Mount Escape Playbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "The Other Pin: Flattened Under Mount." Print it. The article maps mount survival and the two core escapes. This book drills them: the safety and pressure standards, the survival position built step by step, elbow-knee and trap-and-roll progressions with troubleshooting at every stage, high mount and grapevine modules, chaining rounds, and the benchmarks that tell you the system works live.

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SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE — MOUNT RULES ☐ Tap early and often. Under mount, tap with voice first: your hands are busy protecting you and may not reach a tapping surface. A verbal tap stops everything, instantly. ☐ Never crank a submission. Mounted attacks in these drills (collars, armbars in later progressions) are applied with full control at drill pace. Control before submission, always. ☐ Protect your partner: the mounted player never drops weight, bounces, or posts a knee into ribs or head to "make it real." Pressure is dosed by the tables in Part 2, not by enthusiasm. ☐ The bottom player never bridges a partner into a fall onto their own head or neck: trap-and-roll reps (Part 5) are walked through at drill speed until the landing is controlled both ways. ☐ Neck and throat are protected territory: any choke pressure in drilling is released the instant a tap, a sound, or a hand movement suggests one. Newer partners drill escapes with no chokes at all until Part 7.

Part 1: The Survival Position, Built

The position, piece by piece

Survival drills